what's up guys back again with another tutorial so today we are going to take that welding table
and create a cut list and what a cut list is essentially a breakdown of exactly what how
much material you need how many quantity how long each piece is so imagine taking your table and
creating a description of each piece in an Excel spreadsheet list so when you go to like the metal
supply store they'll know exactly how much to order so you're not over buying or undermine yo
you're buying enough to create your fabrication project so without further ado let's get into
it okay let's get into SolidWorks and the first thing you want to do is you want to go into the
advanced folder right now I actually have the my own default template that I custom we made
I'll actually provide that in the link below in the project file folder so make sure to download
that and then save that to your file location so let's open up the drawing document and now you
want to actually hover over this box hit insert model let's browse for it in our particular case
this is the welding table master I'm sure let's hit rebuild and you can already see that it's too
big so we'll scale that guy down to let's try 112 just put this in the ISO view and let's make this
share with edges and let's also make that high quality and you want to make this high quality
is so that when you we we can wrap this all up and we PDF this you want to make sure that the
resolution is it's clean and if you don't select that sometimes it the lines can be kind of jagged
so that's just so you know tip alright so now that we have it there hold down alt shift it over to
the right somewhere that's worth gonna live and then go into Eddy sheet format and we're gonna
delete this here because we don't really need that for our cut list we were doing a single
part that I would leave that there but we're not we're doing a complete cut list component so now
we want to go into well made cut list select our part keep everything on the left the same don't
need to change that and now snap the table to the far left and now you can see within this table you
have the item number the quantity the description and the length and these links automatically come
up for weldment features such as the tubes any type of to anything in the well-knit defaults
all works well mints so that's a pretty cool thing so if you look at this list i'll if we
go to item 3 you see it this is TR TR she means 2 per tangler that's just a standard nomenclature
that I like to use to keep it consistent with the default profiles in SolidWorks and then you
also have TS which is 2 squared so those are just short names for for the two profiles and then if
you look over to the right you have the length and these automatically pop up which is which
are great because now you can you know exactly how long each leg is 42 so if you were to go by
material you could take this four times this 42.5 and you'll know exactly how much mature you need
in this particular size so that's the one cool thing that well MIT does it automatically pops
this up for you and sometimes you get this blank and you're wondering well how come it and then
automatically pop that up for us we actually actually that's actually a good thing for us
because I'll actually show you how to go into this and and update this that you can custom name all
these to your liking but before we do that I need to know exactly what is item four one way to find
out is to go into the auto balloons select the part and automatically propagate this for us and
you can see there item four is this cross two now I will say one downfall of automatic ballooning is
that it only proper gauged these balloons base off what's in frame or pretty much what it sees
anything underneath this table the balloons won't pop up but I'll do a quick workaround and show
you exactly how we how we modify that so in order to do that what we want to do is we will may want
to make this tabletop transparent so let's go into the part while okay so now that we're in
the park we're gonna select the top plate there and we're gonna make that transparent so now we
can see through hit ctrl s to save so now we can actually see what tubes were hidden that we need
to call out so it looks like these pieces here we're hidden so let's zoom in on that and this
is more of a manual approach so we're gonna go into balloons hover over exactly what you want
to be selected and if I just select it there it actually selects the wrong thing actually selects
one which we already have a repeat which is just a tabletop we don't want that so then undo that
hit control Z so let's go back and put a balloon hover over right click and then select other and
then scroll down until you see the desired selection so we're gonna use this face here
and we're gonna go 14 because you see here 14 doesn't show up so we need to manually add it
and I'm gonna add the rest of the remaining parts so I'm a zip through this real quick
okay now that we have all our balloons filled out all 19 parts are 19 parts I've been filled
out let's just clean up this line a little bit we're gonna add a magnetic line which is zip
that through like that and it will grab it and then we'll just do some rearranging to make it
look cleaner okay so now we have all our balloons matching to all our parts what we want to do now
is go to item 4 and item 4 is going to be this this cross section tube here so let's so let's
fix this empty empty spot so let's go back into the park and this is 4 and we're gonna go to our
cut list menu drop-down and select that again so we see what gets highlighted and there it goes
this is the one that we need to change a little properties you see why it's blank cuz there's
nothing in the description so this guy here seems to be I believe this is a stoical TR 2 by 1 and 1
and a half by 14 gauge so let's update that it's a match properties TR 2 by 1 point 5 5 point 0 8
3 and I'm going to say 14 because we know that guys 14 gauge let's make these capitalized to
keep everything consistent ok so as you can see a updated in the list hit ctrl s and go back and
voila the empty spot is filled in cool so let's now we want to also look at these generic names
called sheep we actually want to name it something so we know exactly what it is so item 13 is going
to be the looks like much quite sure where it's going but I believe that is the mounting plate
for the casters but let's double check that's it's like that yep it's 13 and then the other
one sheet is 17 so 17 let's look for 17 17 is the flat bar holder for the angle grinders so let's
actually make that a little bit more easy to see by deleting that and adding a balloon here it's a
lot easier to see and shift things around so let's update the descriptions for those sheet pieces all
right let's go back into the park and let's start with this flat bar purrs so we know that this
piece is the flat bar for the angle grinder so right now it won't let me select anything on prom
this hunts like this here and it's cronic over and we're gonna call this flat bar angle grinder cool
so that we know that goes to the angle grinder now that that's done we also want to go to the
caster pounding plates and let's update that as well I'd select sheet scroll back overs we're
gonna call this plate caster so we know that the plate for the casters cool now they've got that
out of the way hit control SSA and there you see it now we have all our pieces updated but for some
reason we're missing the length for these pieces and to do that and the reason why they're not
there is because these aren't well made profiles they're actually I would say custom sheet metal
parts but there's a quick workaround so that they automatically pop up in order to do that
what I like to do is go through the this column insert column to the right actually select that
column if you look over to the the sidebar you'll scroll down and go to cut list property and right
now select bounding box and we're gonna name this plate link alright and as I see see now
we know the length of for example the top plate now we need to know the width and the thickness
so we're gonna add another column just like that kind of cut this and go to a bounding box with and
we're gonna name that plate with okay and now we're gonna also do another column and that's
gonna be the plate thickness so I know sheet metal thickness and we're just gonna name that
plate thickness there you go yeah you can see it's kind of eating into our our balloon figure here so
let's kind of rescale this a little bit so that it's out of the way so there you go you have a we
know we now know that our table plate top is 53 by 30 by 0.25 thickness so that's gonna help us out
when we organize everything when we're ready to order our parts and so far for the rest okay and
another option is so let's say we wanted to define this plate instead of having it automatically pop
up here and wanted let's say have it it's own individual drawing dog and this may be
beneficial because maybe you're handing this off to a fabricator he needs to figure out exactly
how long he needs to cut it and where he needs to bend it in order to do that we're gonna go into a
new part okay and then we're gonna hit a hit s as my shortcut but we're gonna look for insert
part you can either find it here or you can type it up here and look for insert part and what we're
going to do is we're going to insert this welding table and over in the left hand we're gonna select
make sure we select sheet metal information very important sure and because we're only interested
in just this tab what we want to do is hit s and look for delete the slash key body and we're gonna
just keep only this hair so we only just want to keep that body and delete everything else and
there you go and now this because we selected the sheet metal properties in the beginning if
you look over to sheet metal you can see that this has a flattened profile and that's gonna
help us out when we make our individual drawing document so we're gonna call this a flat bar
helmet because it's the flat bar for the helmet okay that's gonna be its own part file and then
we're gonna hop back into the drawing document and actually add a new page and that's okay and
I'm gonna add give you guys another template but we're gonna give this new page okay yes
and they work we're gonna go over and you want to insert that flat bar so let's look for it there
and for now we're just gonna do a nice overview first scale that down - it's got one one sure
why not and then now we're gonna do the right view and let's scale that down to one to one
and we can dimension it this way so this is one way of doing it and we're also going to add a
flat pattern which which is what I really wanted to get to so this guy we're gonna also make this
one one and then we're gonna rotate this 90 okay and then we're hold alt - actually it locked on
to the part the limit no problem were just going to unlock it break a lamp in alt shift it down
and then we're gonna and then we also want to give this a dimension so this flat bar we know
that if it's unbent it's gonna be about 5.9 - and if we go back to our Cutlass and you look
at the flat bar welding helmet and look at the length 5.92 so that's just a way to double check
to make sure hey my table matches my actual flat tire okay and so if something were to make this
we're gonna want to know the lengths they're gonna want to know dick aha why does it they're gonna
want to know how thick it is and they're gonna want to know where to bend it so we're gonna
just quickly add those features in and because we have this up by 90 we technically don't have to
go into this and dimension it to 90 you can if you want but but let's just do it for the sake
of just consistency why not and there you go and this is going to be one way to call out a custom
she metal part if you didn't want to make a table and so like I said this is only mainly
for if we're gonna hand this off to a fabricator to have them build it then you're gonna do do it
this way the other way this is just more for hey I'm gonna order this material and you know how
much material I need okay we can probably call it quits right here but I like to actually make
things more prettier I'm a little bit OCD I guess so what I like to do is kind of like organize the
sheet so let's do that real quick let's put all the the two rectangular Zinn one section
and then the two squares in another sex and a little plate pieces in another section so I'm
gonna shift this guy up there two by one two by one and is there any other two by ones no
so that's next and this just makes it easier so that when I do my addition multiplication
whatever I know that I'm gonna need four days times 22.5 add that to the 53 of this and then
thirty of this times two so that's why I know exactly a total how much to buy ones that I
need for this it just kind of keeps everything nice and organized okay I like that it looks
my lot cleaner cool we have our plates in one area we have a perforated plate and we have our
flat bars in another area so everything is nice and clean and I'm gonna want to format this to
just my taste make it a little bit smaller and you know shrink it down a little bit to here
okay that looks good and let's actually make this top row bowl and just keep this all in
one line so that makes it nice and clean okay and there you guys have it it's a cutlass and
you can move this guy down here up here but this pretty much represents all the parts
you need to order in a nice organized list and actually I actually want to make these
all capitalized just to kind of follow rules of engineering documents so let's
go up to here and hit all capitalized there you go and I want to make these annotations
in these balloons the same size so let's go to system options annotations fonts and let's go
to eight as well just to keep everything consistent okay now we have that we can
now save out as a PDF you guys are pretty much done and let's view this after and that is it
this is our PDF and this is what you'll have so when you go down to your your metal supply shop
you'll bring this list and you'll be able to order all your parts and not over by or under
by I usually like to take this list and add 10% just because I'll be cutting these pieces
and and just in case I'm making the state I have additional extra all right that is it
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